EP0551379A1 - Beam current limiting arrangement having a peak amplitude responsive threshold. - Google Patents
Beam current limiting arrangement having a peak amplitude responsive threshold.Info
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- EP0551379A1 EP0551379A1 EP91918075A EP91918075A EP0551379A1 EP 0551379 A1 EP0551379 A1 EP 0551379A1 EP 91918075 A EP91918075 A EP 91918075A EP 91918075 A EP91918075 A EP 91918075A EP 0551379 A1 EP0551379 A1 EP 0551379A1
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- the present invention pertains to a beam current limiting arrangement such as may be employed in a television receiver or display monitor.
- Conventional color television receivers and display monitors usually include an average beam current limiter for the protection of the picture tube and the high voltage circuitry.
- the average beam current exceeds a predetermined maximum amplitude of, for example, 1.4 milliamperes (ma)
- the contrast and/or brightness of the reproduced image is decreased by the beam limiter to avoid a further increase of the beam current.
- FIG. 1 shows the circuit diagram of a television receiver including a commonly employed average beam current limiter.
- a video signal processing channel 10 low level red (r), green (g), and blue (b) color video signals provided by a video signal processing circuit 20 are amplified by respective picture tube (or kinescope) drive amplifiers, generally indicated by reference number 30, to produce high level red (R), green (G), and blue (B) color video signals suitable for directly driving respective cathodes of a picture tube (or kinescope) 40.
- picture tube (or kinescope) drive amplifiers generally indicated by reference number 30, to produce high level red (R), green (G), and blue (B) color video signals suitable for directly driving respective cathodes of a picture tube (or kinescope) 40.
- low level video signal processing circuit 20 may comprise an integrated circuit (IC), such as the TDA 3562 or TDA 3506 IC, available from Philips of The Netherlands.
- IC integrated circuit
- a high supply voltage for picture tube 40 is developed at - the high potential end of a high voltage winding 51 of a horizontal flyback transformer 50 in response to horizontal deflection signals generated by a horizontal deflection circuit 60. /15080
- Beam limiting arrangement 70 of the television receiver shown in Figure 1 is of the conventional type which responds to the average beam current drawn by picture tube 40. Specifically, the beam current of a picture tube 40 is -sensed (or “sampled") at the junction of a resistor Rl " and a capacitor Cl coupled to the low potential end of high voltage winding 51 of horizontal flyback transformer 50. Resistor Rl and a relatively high voltage supply (e.g., ⁇ 200 volts) form a constant current source from which current flowing to picture tube 40 through high voltage winding 51 of flyback transformer 50 is drawn. Capacitor Cl serves to remove horizontal rate signal components.
- Resistor Rl and a relatively high voltage supply e.g., ⁇ 200 volts
- the sense point is coupled to the contrast control input of the video signal processing circuit 20 through a low pass filter circuit including a resistor R2 and a capacitor C2 and a switching diode D2.
- a manual contrast control circuit 80 illustratively shown as including resistors R3, R4 and R5, a potentiometer R6 and a filter capacitor C3, is also coupled to the contrast control input of the video processing circuit 20.
- a diode DI clamps the junction of capacitor C2 and diode D2 to a relatively low voltage (e.g., +12 volts) and therefore protects capacitor C2 and diode D2 from the relatively high supply voltage (e.g., +200 volts) which might otherwise be applied to them at relatively low beam currents.
- diode Dl is conductive and diode D2 is non-conductive at low beam currents.
- the voltage developed across capacitor Cl decreases toward zero as the average beam current increases.
- Protection diode Dl is rendered non-conductive and thereafter switching diode D2 is rendered conductive as the beam current increases.
- the contrast control voltage is decreased as a function of beam current and, in turn, the beam current is also decreased.
- Diode D2 is rendered conductive when its cathode voltage falls approximately 0.7 volts below its anode voltage. The anode voltage is equal to the contrast control voltage.
- the point at which diode D2 is rendered conductive and average beam current limiter 70 is activated to reduce the contrast is referred to as the "threshold" or "delav" of average beam current limiter 70.
- hreshold or “delay” of average beam current limiter 70 shown in Figure 1 is determined by the value of resistor Rl and is fixed.
- the rather low dynamic range of a picture tube may cause an overload problem when only the average beam current is limited as in the television receiver shown in Figure 1. This is illustrated by the waveforms shown in Figure 1-1.
- Waveform la represents a video signal (V ) for producing a large white window. Such a window results in a high amount of average beam current which puts the beam limiter into operation.
- Waveforms lb and lc show video signals producing the same amount of average beam current as the signal of waveform la because their envelopes cover same area.
- the staircase signal of waveform lb produces an ultra bright picture portion
- waveform lc produces bars of excessive brightness and hot spots on the picture tube mask. Such hot spots may cause the mask to deform in what is sometimes referred to as mask "doming".
- the contrast setting for waveform lc should be lower than for waveform la.
- beam current limiting arrangement 70 shown in Figure 1 cannot differentiate between waveforms la, lb and lc shown in Figure 1-1. This is so because the beam current is averaged by the aquadag capacitor of picture tube 40 (i.e., the capacitor formed between the inner and outer coatings of picture tube 40) and the voltage developed across capacitor Cl is related to the current which recharges the aquadag capacitor through high voltage winding 51 during horizontal retrace.
- the actual beam current is the sum of currents flowing through the electron guns of picture tube 40.
- a beam current limiting arrangement comprises a peak detector which senses a video signal related to the cathode currents of the picture tube and which controls the threshold of an average beam current limiter of the type shown in Figure 1.
- the peak detector includes cathode current sensing elements coupled between the picture tube drive amplifiers and the cathodes of the picture tube and advantageously are the same elements which are used to sense the cathode currents during a test interval in which, for example, automatic black level adjustments are made.
- the threshold for the average beam current limiter is lowered when excessively bright peak picture portions are present.
- the threshold for the average beam limiter is unaffected when excessively bright white peak picture portions are absent.
- Figure 1 shows a circuit diagram of a television receiver including an average beam current limiter as is known in the prior an;
- Figure 1-1 shows waveforms of various video signals useful in understanding problems of the average beam current limiter shown in Figure 1;
- Figure 2 shows a circuit diagram of a television receiver including a non-linear beam current limiting arrangement constructed in accordance with the present invention
- Figure 2-2 shows waveforms of various video signals useful in understanding advantages of the non-linear beam current limiting arrangement shown in Figure 2.
- beam current limiting arrangement 70' shown in Figure 2 in accordance with an aspect of the present invention, in addition to an average beam current limiter 70a similar to the one shown in Figure 1 for reducing the contrast when the average beam current exceeds a threshold, also includes a peak beam current limiter 70b for controlling the threshold of average beam current limiter 70a in response to the the actual beam current drawn by picture tube 40.
- Cathode current sensing circuit 90R comprises of an emitter- follower configured transistor Ql and base-emitter by-pass circuit including a capacitor C4 and and a diode D4 required for driving the cathode capacity.
- a current substantially equal to the red cathode current flows through resistor R9 connected to the collector of transistor Ql.
- currents substantially equal to the blue and green cathode currents flow through resistors R10 and Rl 1, respectively.
- the red, green and blue cathode currents are summed to produce a current il .
- the current il is used to control the threshold of average beam current limiter 70a as will be described in detail below.
- cathode current sensing elements 90 are the same elements which are utilized for sensing the cathode currents of picture tube 40 during an adjustment interval in order 1/15080
- Systems for automatically adjusting the black level of the reproduced image are well known and typically are included in part in video signal processing ICs such as .the TDA 3506 and TDA 3562. Such systems are sometimes referred to as AKB (automatic kinescope biasing) systems.
- an AKB system operates by inserting a test pulse corresponding to the desired black level of the reproduced image into each of the red, blue and green video signal channels during respective sequential horizontal line intervals, such as line intervals 22, 23 and 24, of the vertical blanking interval.
- the test pulses do not produce visible artifacts because the test pulses occur during line intervals in the "overscan" region of the picture tube which is not visible to viewers.
- the test pulses are not produced at times other than during the AKB interval.
- Each of the cathode currents which are sequentially produced during the AKB interval is sensed by a respective one of cathode current sensing circuits 90 and coupled via a respective one of resistors R9, RIO and Rl l and a resistor R7 associated with the beam current limiting operation to an AKB input terminal of IC 20.
- Each sensed cathode current is converted to a respective voltage by virtue of a relatively high valued resistor (not shown) within IC 20. The voltage is compared to a reference voltage within IC 20 and a resultant comparison signal is used to set the black level of the respective video signal.
- a sampling circuit 100 including a resistor R7 and a diode D3 is provided to -7- develop a voltage V2 which is proportional to current ij while protecting IC 20 during active image intervals.
- the voltage V 2 is converted to a current which determines the threshold of average beam current limiter 70a by a controllable current source 110 including a transistor Q2, diodes D5, D6, and D7, resistors R12, R13. R14 and R15, and potentiometer R16. More specifically, the current supplied through the collector of transistor Q2 divides between the resupply current flowing to capacitor Cl through resistor R2 and the current flowing through resistor R17.
- Diode D2 is rendered conductive when the voltage at its cathode falls approximately 0.7 volts below the voltage at its anode.
- the voltage at the cathode of diode D2 is determined by the current flowing through resistor R17.
- the current flowing through resistor R17 is the difference between the current supplied by transistor Q2 and the resupply current of picture tube 40 flowing through high voltage winding 51 of flyback transformer 50. Therefore, the current supplied by transistor Q2 determines the level of average beam current at which diode D2 is rendered conductive and therefore the threshold of average beam current limiter 70a.
- a diode D8 is coupled between the base of transistor Q2 and the +12 volt supply line in order to protect transistor Q2 from reverse base-to- emitter breakdown voltages which may be developed when the aquadag capacitor of picture tube 40 is initially charged.
- a diode corresponding to diode Dl of beam current limiting arrangement 70 shown in Figure 1 is not needed since its protection function is performed by current source 110. More specifically, at low beam currents, the voltage developed at the cathode of diode D2 is limited by the current supplied by current source 110.
- current ii represents the sum of the cathode currents and may increase to the point at which peak beam current limiting action occurs as follows.
- Diode D7 is forward biased and therefore conductive at low levels of current i ⁇ and remains so until the current ii reaches a threshold value determined by resistors R14 and R15 and ' potentiometer R16. As long as diode D7 is conductive, the base voltage of transistor Q2 remains substantially constant. Consequentially the emitter and collector currents of transistor Q2 and therefore the threshold of average beam current limiter 70a remain substantially constant.
- Diode D7 is rendered non-conductive when the voltage at the junction of resistor R12 and resistor R14 reaches approximately +12 volts or, viewed another way, when the current flowing through resistor R12 substantially equals the current flowing through resistor R14. Thereafter, the base voltage of transistor Q2 is allowed to increase as the current ij increases. As the base voltage of transistor Q2 increases, the collector current decreases and consequentially the threshold of average beam current limiter 70a also decreases. The collector current of transistor Q2 and the threshold of average beam current limiter 70a continue to decrease until current i[ increases to the point at which the base voltage of transistor Q2 is slightly greater than +12 volts and diode D8 is rendered conductive. Thereafter, the collector current of transistor Q2 and the threshold of average beam current limiter 70a are substantially zero. 1/150
- contrast potentiometer R6 is set to produce the maximum contrast control voltage of +4.5 volts so as to produce maximum contrast and that it is desired that the average beam current limiter 70a ' is to be activated when 1.4 milliamperes (ma) of average beam current is drawn.
- diode D2 since the voltage at the anode of diode D2 is +4.5 volts, diode D2 will be rendered conductive when the voltage developed across resistor R17 decreases to approximately +3.8 volts (+4.5 volts - 0.7 volts). The latter corresponds to a current of approximately 0.8 ma (3.8 volts/4.7 kohm) flowing through resistor R17.
- the collector current of transistor Q2 should be set to 2.2 ma (0.8 ma +1.4 ma) before peak beam current limiter 70b is activated because diode D2 is to be rendered conductive when the the current flowing through resistor R17 is 0.8 ma and the current drawn through resistor R2 is 1.4 ma.
- a collector current of 2.2 ma causes a voltage drop across emitter resistor R13 of approximately 1 volt (2.2 ma x 470 ohm). Until peak beam current limiter 70b is activated, diode D7 is conductive and the voltage drop across it compensates for the base-emitter voltage drop of transistor Q2.
- potentiometer R16 should be adjusted so that a voltage drop of 1 volt is developed across resistor R14 (1 kohm) to establish a average beam current threshold of 1.4 ma before peak beam current limiter is activated.
- diode D7 will be rendered conductive when the current (1/2 i ⁇ ) flowing through diodes D5 and D6 and resistor R12 increases to 1 ma or current ij increases to 2 ma. If peak beam current representative current i increases beyond 2 ma, the collector current of transistor Q2, and consequentially the threshold of average beam current limiter 70b, will decrease.
- waveforms 2a, 2b and 2c shown in Figure 2-1.
- contrast control potentiometer R6 is set to produce the highest contrast (i.e., the wiper arm of potentiometer R6 is set to provide a contrast control voltage of +4.5 volts).
- Waveform 2a corresponds to the display of a large white window. It is assumed 1/15080
- the amplitude of the cathode drive voltages (VI) are controlled by automatically shifting the threshold of the average beam current limiter, as is indicated by waveforms 2a, 2b and 2c in Figure 2-1, in order to make the response of beam current limiting arrangement 70' to video signals corresponding to relatively large areas and to video signals corresponding to relatively small areas more uniform.
- full screen multiburst signal such as those corresponding to text may produce an overproportional decrease of the threshold of average beam current 70a. This is caused by the charge currents for the cathode capacitances. The charge currents contribute to current il , resulting in a decreased /15080
- beam current limiting arrangement 70' combines the control functions of average beam current limiter 70a and peak current limiter 70b in an interdependent fashion. More specifically, potentiometer R16 determines the thresholds (or delays) for both average beam current limiter 70a and peak beam current limiter 70b. As a result, the thresholds automatically track each other. For example, adjusting potentiometer R16 to provide 2 mA threshold for average beam current limiter 70a results in a 2.6 mA threshold for peak current limiter 70b. Such tracking relationship is desirable because component tolerances and the use of different picture tubes in a chassis may necessitate threshold adjustments. It will be understood that various modifications may be made to the described embodiment.
- the beam current is limited by controlling the contrast of the image in the described embodiment
- the beam current may also be reduced by controlling the brightness of the image, either in conjunction with contrast or alone.
- AKB sensing circuitry is advantageously used to also sense the actual beam current drawn by the picture tube
- other sense circuitry may be used for this purpose.
- use of these signals may only produce an approximation of the actual beam currents since they do not represent adjustments made within picture tube drive amplifiers 30 to account for picture tube tolerances. Therefore it is preferable to sense the cathode currents directly at the cathodes.
- the amplitude of all three color signals are sensed in the preferred embodiment of the invention, it is possible to sense less than all three of the color signals, e.g., only the green color signal which most closely corresponds to the luminance information.
- a sensing arrangement will not produce an accurate representation of the actual beam current since the actual beam current corresponds to the sum of the three cathode currents.
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Abstract
Un agencement de limitation de courant de faisceau automatique d'un récepteur de télévision ou d'un moniteur d'affichage comprend un limiteur de courant de faisceau moyen (70a) couplé au côté faible d'un transformateur à haute tension (50) afin de réduire le contraste d'une image reproduite lorsque le courant de faisceau moyen dépasse un seuil, ainsi qu'un limiteur de courant de crête (70b) couplé aux cathodes du tube récepteur de télévision (40) afinde réguler une source de courant (110), laquelle détermine le seuil dudit limiteur de courant de faisceau moyen (70a) en réponse à la somme des courants des cathodes du tube récepteur de télévision. Selon un mode de réalisation, les circuits de détection des courants des cathodes comprennent les mêmes circuits de détection de courant de cathodes que ceux utilisés dans un agencement de réglage automatique de niveau de noir. Cet agencement de limitation de faisceau permet un fonctionnement à des niveaux de contraste élevés tout en supprimant les zones de blanc à crête excessive.An automatic beam current limiting arrangement of a television receiver or display monitor includes a medium beam current limiter (70a) coupled to the weak side of a high voltage transformer (50) to reduce the contrast of a reproduced image when the average beam current exceeds a threshold, as well as a peak current limiter (70b) coupled to the cathodes of the television receiver tube (40) in order to regulate a current source (110) , which determines the threshold of said average beam current limiter (70a) in response to the sum of the cathode currents of the television receiver tube. According to one embodiment, the cathode current detection circuits comprise the same cathode current detection circuits as those used in an arrangement for automatic black level adjustment. This beam limiting arrangement allows operation at high contrast levels while suppressing areas of excessive peak white.
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